Falletta-Cowden Neal, Smith Patrick, Hayes Steven C, Georgescu Sandra, Kolahdouzan Seyed Ali
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.
Contextual CBT Center, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA.
J Clin Med. 2022 May 18;11(10):2848. doi: 10.3390/jcm11102848.
The embodied knowledge of psychological flexibility processes was tested by examining the ability of raters to score whole body pictures based on the degree to which they were open, aware, and engaged. Participants' best and worst physical posture was photographed when asked to think of a difficult psychological matter. Naïve and untrained raters ( = 16) showed excellent reliability while rating the postures of 82 persons from the general population in Reno and Chicago in the USA and recent Iranian immigrants in the Maryland/DC area. Participants showed embodied knowledge of psychological flexibility concepts across all three locations (though significantly less among those recently from Iran). Thus, experience alone appears to teach people that psychological flexibility is helpful, even if they are unable to express this knowledge in words. Implications for psychotherapeutic work is considered.
通过检查评分者根据全身照片中人物的开放程度、觉察程度和投入程度进行评分的能力，对心理灵活性过程的具身知识进行了测试。当参与者被要求思考一个困难的心理问题时，拍摄他们最佳和最差的身体姿势。未受过专业训练的普通评分者（n = 16）在美国里诺和芝加哥的82名普通人群以及马里兰州/华盛顿特区地区的近期伊朗移民的姿势评分中表现出了出色的可靠性。所有三个地区的参与者都表现出了心理灵活性概念的具身知识（尽管最近来自伊朗的参与者表现明显较少）。因此，仅通过经验似乎就能让人们认识到心理灵活性是有帮助的，即使他们无法用言语表达这种知识。本文还考虑了对心理治疗工作的启示。
